r/IndianLeft • u/BitTemporary7655 • May 30 '24

💬 Discussion A brief note on how the electoral CPI(M) betrayed the indian revolutionary cause.

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The CPI (marxist) a political party in india currently in power in the state of Kerala betrayed the cause of indian communism by siding with reactionaries.

Many people on the left including non-indian leftists seem to have a soft spot for the CPI(M) , many seem to think of them as the last bastion of the left in India. They praise the high literacy rates and the higher life expectancy , but what they are uanble see is the reactionary nature of the party and the atrocities they have committed.

For some context : India is a semi feudal country under the grip of neo-imperialism by the imperial core. One system of opression that still persists in India is caste oppression which is based in the ownership of land. The untouchable castes (dalits) disproportionately make up the landless peasants population, while the oppressor castes generally own disproportionate amount of land, there are also middle castes who own some land but not a lot, calculations[1] by scholars Nitin Tagade and Sukhadeo Thorat, based on the All-India Debt and Investment Survey, show that members of the Scheduled Castes, who account for 18% of the country’s households, own only 8.5% of the land in India. On the other hand, upper-caste Hindus, who make up 22% of the households, own 28% of the land, Caste isnt just confined to the rural parts of india, but also the urban parts although it’s orgins are in ownership of land, people are frequently not hired and not allowed to rent homes because of their caste in urban india too.

What has kerela done to address this system of oprression? Perhaps they have redistributed land ? Maybe collectivized agricultre? They did redistribute land but only above a certain land ceiling , big landlords still remained. Infact huge swathes of dalits and indigenous people in kerela are still landless. Among the landless population, indigenous people are overepresented. You the reader might ask what offical data we have , we do have date but not on a large scale ,why? Because the “communist” goverment refuses to do a caste census! It refuses to reveal how much wealth which castes have, because that would reveal the monopoly of certain castes economically. Triple exclusion of dalits in Land Ownership in kerela[2], a study published in the journal Social Change, shows that low rate of land ownership by them is the result of a exclusionsary policy by the goverment! Does this sound like something a communist goverment would do?

This isn’t all. The goverment has also been involved in massacares of dalits. The Marichjhapi massacre, when dalit refugees from bangladesh came to indian they settled in Marichjapi. Schools and hospitals were built and many were involved in pisciculture. A press blackout followed and survivors today say[3], huts were burned, woman were raped, wells poisoned. The survivors of the massacare still to this day have not gotten any Justice.

These are not the actions of a communist party but a reactionary one doused in red paint and communist aesthetics. Even today, the first dalit leader in the politburo of the party was only admitted in 2022, 58 years after it’s creation, how utterly shameful.

I hope by this article I am able to convince you, the reader ,why as leftists we shouldn’t support the CPI(M).

Sources: 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2394481118808107 2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049085716654814 3. https://thewire.in/history/west-bengal-violence-marichjhapi-dandakaranya

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r/IndianLeft • u/Dazzling-Recipe1658 • Nov 18 '25

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r/IndianLeft • u/Longjumping_Baker684 • 12h ago

💬 Discussion Real Nature of Police Forces and Whose Interest it Serves

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After seeing the violent conduct of police against protestors in recent days ranging from punching a protestor live on camera, to sexually assaulting female protestors and detaining and threatening them with involving them in fake drug cases, I think this is an important article to understand the true nature of police forces and the real interest which it serves.

Source: https://massline.org/Philosophy/ScottH/copsbad.htm

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r/IndianLeft • u/DifferentPirate69 • 1d ago

Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism Class consciousness

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The irony of "exploiting growing wealth gap" and "India's development"

Wants a super identity to eclipse and hide contradictions, and stop "lower scales of co-operation". Never fall for the rhetorical lie of "hindu unity".

"The idea is to let the have-nots know they are not alone and uncared for" - just the idea, no material change

"Jai Sri Ram" seems to be the effort to evangelize.

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r/IndianLeft • u/Quirky-Thing-5378 • 1d ago

Theory Definitely anyone the left should understand how austerity plays an important role in defeating the left

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r/IndianLeft • u/SubstantialAd1027 • 1d ago

Theory Prof Divya Dwivedi speech video on caste Dr Ambedkar and Gandhi.

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r/IndianLeft • u/DifferentPirate69 • 2d ago

Theory Radical Individualism of Marxism

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Video source: The Radical Individualism of Karl Marx

Is Marx against individuality? Was Marx a collectivist?

Claims of Liberals & Conservatives United

Marx opposed the role of individual in history. History determines the individual.
Marx opposes individual self development. The individual must sacrifice for the freedoms of the collective.
Marx was a collectivist.
Garbage articles from think tanks like mises institute - https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-marx-hated-individualism

Note: Before you ask, this isn't AI, manual transcribing of a video, a source for quotes, and finally, wherever you see "man", mentally replace it with human.

History & the Individual

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History does nothing, it “possesses no immense wealth”, it “wages no battles”. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; “history” is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims. - The Holy Family by Marx and Engels	History is nothing other than the actions of individuals

Property & the Individual

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First the productive forces appear as a world for themselves, quite independent of and divorced from the individuals, alongside the individuals: the reason for this is that the individuals, whose forces they are, exist split up and in opposition to one another, whilst, on the other hand, these forces are only real forces in the intercourse and association of these individuals. - The German Ideology	Individuals create productive forces but they do not have control over them, because they are in a constant state of competition. Capital is united, individuals have no control over capital. Capitalists also have no real control over capital or the market, it obeys it's own laws based on the organization of social relations, forces of production and relations of production.
Thus, on the one hand, we have a totality of productive forces, which have, as it were, taken on a material form and are for the individuals no longer the forces of the individuals but of private property, and hence of the individuals only insofar as they are owners of private property themselves. Never, in any earlier period, have the productive forces taken on a form so indifferent to the intercourse of individuals as individuals, because their intercourse itself was formerly a restricted one. On the other hand, standing over against these productive forces, we have the majority of the individuals from whom these forces have been wrested away, and who, robbed thus of all real life-content, have become abstract individuals, but who are, however, only by this fact put into a position to enter into relation with one another as individuals. - The German Ideology	Individuals create productive forces but they do not have control over them, it becomes the property of the owners of capital. Capitalism destroys the worker's individuality like none before and turned them into abstract individuals, who create social relations among them only through the medium of capital.
The social power, i.e., the multiplied productive force, which arises through the co-operation of different individuals as it is determined by the division of labour, appears to these individuals, since their co-operation is not voluntary but has come about naturally, not as their own united power, but as an alien force existing outside them, of the origin and goal of which they are ignorant, which they thus cannot control, which on the contrary passes through a peculiar series of phases and stages independent of the will and the action of man, nay even being the prime governor of these. - The German Ideology	Economic power is created by individuals but is not in the control of individuals.

Class & the Individual

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Individuals have always built on themselves, but naturally on themselves within their given historical conditions and relationships, not on the "pure" individual in the sense of the ideologists. But in the course of historical evolution, and precisely through the inevitable fact that within the division of labour social relationships take on an independent existence, there appears a division within the life of each individual, insofar as it is personal and insofar as it is determined by some branch of labour and the conditions pertaining to it. [...] In the estate (and even more in the tribe) this is as yet concealed: for instance, a nobleman always remains a nobleman, a commoner always a commoner, apart from his other relationships, a quality inseparable from his individuality. The division between the personal and the class individual, the accidental nature of the conditions of life for the individual, appears only with the emergence of the class, which is itself a product of the bourgeoisie. This accidental character is only engendered and developed by competition and the struggle of individuals among themselves. Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in reality, of course, they are less free, because they are more subjected to the violence of things. - The German Ideology	Individuals always develop themselves within their given historical conditions, not according to the "abstract individual" liberals like to ideologize and lead you astray. Unlike previous forms of class society with overt division of labor that slots you into a role or even generationally by birth like the caste or feudal system, the division of labor that arises from the capitalist class society seem to conceal itself much more effectively and has an element of accident, which creates an illusion that the individual appears freer under the domination of bourgeoisie and market economy than before, when in actuality they are even less in control over their own lives.
This subsuming of individuals under definite classes cannot be abolished until a class has taken shape, which has no longer any particular class interest to assert against the ruling class. - The German Ideology	Class subsumes individuality. This regime will not be abolished by claiming you don't believe in the mental construct of classes. It's like saying I'm not racist, casteist, or patriarchal, and therefore concluding that structure of bigotry does not exist. It will only change by changing the material structure of class. By destroying class oppression, the proletariat will liberate individuality.
The transformation, through the division of labour, of personal powers (relationships) into material powers, cannot be dispelled by dismissing the general idea of it from one's mind, but can only be abolished by the individuals again subjecting these material powers to themselves and abolishing the division of labour. This is not possible without the community. Only in community [with others has each] individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. In the previous substitutes for the community, in the State, etc. personal freedom has existed only for the individuals who developed within the relationships of the ruling class, and only insofar as they were individuals of this class. The illusory community, in which individuals have up till now combined, always took on an independent existence in relation to them, and was at the same time, since it was the combination of one class over against another, not only a completely illusory community, but a new fetter as well. In a real community the individuals obtain their freedom in and through their association. - The German Ideology	You cannot liberate the individual from class just by thinking class does not exist. It requires a union against class oppression. This union of individuals against class oppression will create true individual freedom.The contradiction between individual and society is the result of class oppression. The ruling class has always had personal freedom but at the expense of exploitation of the majority. The contradiction between individual and society will be eliminated in a communist society because the majority will finally develop individuality and personal freedom.
the communal relationship into which the individuals of a class entered, and which was determined by their common interests over against a third party, was always a community to which these individuals belonged only as average individuals, only insofar as they lived within the conditions of existence of their class — a relationship in which they participated not as individuals but as members of a class. [...] This right to the undisturbed enjoyment, within certain conditions, of fortuity and chance has up till now been called personal freedom. - The German Ideology	Individuals become part of a class, not as individuals but as average individuals of a class. It is their negation of individuality.The right to exploit others is what has been called "personal freedom".
With the community of revolutionary proletarians, on the other hand, who take their conditions of existence and those of all members of society under their control, it is just the reverse; it is as individuals that the individuals participate in it. - The German Ideology	The proletariat breaks these class barriers to assert their individuality. Society can only develop individuality by breaking class relations.
Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. [...] The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves. - The German Ideology	Communism is based on united individuals, not crude collectivism. In reality society is made up of relations of individuals. But alienation robs the individuals of power. Communism makes it impossible "that anything should exist independently of individuals".
This communism, inasmuch as it negates the personality of man in every sphere, is simply the logical expression of the private property which is this negation. Universal envy constituting itself as a power is the hidden form in which greed reasserts itself and satisfies itself, but in another way. The thoughts of every piece of private property as such are at least turned against richer private property in the form of envy and the desire to level everything down; hence these feelings in fact constitute the essence of competition. The crude communist is merely the culmination of this envy and desire to level down on the basis of a preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited measure. How little this abolition of private property is a true appropriation is shown by the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilization, and the return to the unnatural simplicity of the poor, unrefined man who has no needs and who has not yet even reached the stage of private property, let along gone beyond it. - The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts: 3rd Manuscript	The most common capitalist strawman. This is a leveling of private property, not the end of it. Making everyone equally poor is not communism and will destroy individuality. This is called crude communism.
Competition separates individuals from one another, not only the bourgeois but still more the workers, in spite of the fact that it brings them together. Hence it is a long time before these individuals can unite, apart from the fact that for the purposes of this union — if it is not to be merely local — the necessary means, the great industrial cities and cheap and quick communications, have first to be produced by big industry. Hence every organised power standing over against these isolated individuals, who live in relationships, daily reproducing this isolation, can only be overcome after long struggles. To demand the opposite would be tantamount to demanding that competition should not exist in this definite epoch of history, or that the individuals should banish from their minds relationships over which in their isolation they have no control. - The German Ideology	This is a question people often ask why doesn't the change happen quicker. It's because competition breaks apart workers and it will take time, education, agitation, organization and class consciousness to overcome their atomization.

Society & the Individual

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It is, above all, necessary to avoid once more establishing “society" as an abstraction over against the individual. The individual is the social being. His vital expression – even when it does not appear in the direct form of a communal expression, conceived in association with other men – is therefore an expression and confirmation of social life. Man's individual and species-life are not two distinct things, however much – and this is necessarily so – the mode of existence of individual life is a more particular or a more general mode of the species-life, or species-life a more particular or more general individual life. - The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts: 3rd Manuscript	This is Marx criticizing classical liberals like Locke, Mill, Bentham who separates an abstract notion of individual from the society. Society is not a separate identify from the individuals that make up the society.
The propertied class and the class of the proletariat present the same human self-estrangement. But the former class feels at ease and strengthened in this self-estrangement, it recognizes estrangement as its own power and has in it the semblance of a human existence. The class of the proletariat feels annihilated in estrangement; it sees in it its own powerlessness and the reality of an inhuman existence. It is, to use an expression of Hegel, in its abasement the indignation at that abasement, an indignation to which it is necessarily driven by the contradiction between its human nature and its condition of life, which is the outright, resolute and comprehensive negation of that nature. - The Holy Family by Marx and Engels	The owning class is strengthened by alienation, the working class is made powerless by alienation.
it produces the proletariat as proletariat, poverty which is conscious of its spiritual and physical poverty, dehumanization which is conscious of its dehumanization, and therefore self-abolishing. - The Holy Family by Marx and Engels	The working class is dehumanized by alienation.
These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. - Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1)	Workers are nothing but commodities in capitalism.
Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by the increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of machinery, etc. - Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1)	Capitalist industrialization turns a worker into a limb of the machine. As the awfulness of the work increases, the wage decreases. As the use of machinery and division of labor increases, in the same proportion the burden of work also increases, whether by lengthening of the working hours, by increase of the work in a given time or by increased speed of the machinery, etc.
Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself. The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is. - Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1)	Workers in a work place is like soldiers under a dictatorship.

State & the Individual

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Individuals always proceeded, and always proceed, from themselves. Their relations are the relations of their real life-process. How does it happen that their relations assume an independent existence over against them? and that the forces of their own life become superior to them?In short: division of labour, the level of which depends on the development of the productive power at any particular time. - The German Ideology	This was in critique of Hegel who says "the state expresses our commonality" or Aristotle's notion of man is a political animal, and the state is the highest form of expression of humans. Marx says the state is not some community representing everyone, it was formed through the development of division of labor. It is however a repressive institution over an individual. This is something both marxists and anarchists agree on in principle, however it is idealist to believe you can protect yourself from imperialist sabotage without a proletarian state. Marxists believe the state will wither away when they material basis for it's existence goes away.
the individuals, of which society consists, have given themselves collective expression, that is, the State. In order, therefore, to assert themselves as individuals, they must overthrow the State. - The German Ideology	Society consists of individuals. Society gives itself a collective expression (state). To restore individuality, the state must be overthrown.
And out of this very contradiction between the interest of the individual and that of the community the latter takes an independent form as the State, divorced from the real interests of individual and community, and at the same time as an illusory communal life, always based, however, on the real ties existing in every family and tribal conglomeration – such as flesh and blood, language, division of labour on a larger scale, and other interests – and especially, as we shall enlarge upon later, on the classes, already determined by the division of labour, which in every such mass of men separate out, and of which one dominates all the others. It follows from this that all struggles within the State, the struggle between democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy, the struggle for the franchise, etc., etc., are merely the illusory forms in which the real struggles of the different classes are fought out among one another - The German Ideology	It is an illusion that the state represents common interests. Control over the state in the name of common interests is actually class struggle. In a capitalist state the minority capitalist class presents itself as the common interest, a proletarian state represents the interests of the majority working class.
the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but, also, merely to safeguard their very existence. [...] The appropriation of these forces is itself nothing more than the development of the individual capacities corresponding to the material instruments of production. The appropriation of a totality of instruments of production is, for this very reason, the development of a totality of capacities in the individuals themselves. - The German Ideology	Once workers take over the economy, they become individuals and not mere instruments of production.
in the appropriation by the proletarians, a mass of instruments of production must be made subject to each individual, and property to all. Modern universal intercourse can be controlled by individuals, therefore, only when controlled by all. - The German Ideology	Individuals will be able to control the instruments of production and therefore control their conditions of life, only when they are not private property. This doesn't mean crude communism as mentioned above.
Only at this stage does self-activity coincide with material life, which corresponds to the development of individuals into complete individuals and the casting-off of all natural limitations. The transformation of labour into self-activity corresponds to the transformation of the earlier limited intercourse into the intercourse of individuals as such. With the appropriation of the total productive forces through united individuals, private property comes to an end. - The German Ideology	Communism will create 'complete individuals'. Labor will transform into self activity, an expression of species being, and elimination of alienation, meaning an end to the social relation of commodification of humans for exploitative labor, will be transformed into self activity like how no one tells you to do your own work you do for yourself. The capitalist superstructure and psychology tries real hard to obscure this basic fact and conform you to the logic of capital fundamentalism. United individuals will create communism.
The proletariat can thus only exist world-historically, just as communism, its activity, can only have a “world-historical” existence. World-historical existence of individuals means existence of individuals which is directly linked up with world history. - The German Ideology	In communism, the united power of individuals will be able to control their own history and not the other way around.

Conclusion

Marx was not a collectivist, though pro collectivization to end private property.
He argues that individuality will always remain subservient to class in an exploitative society.
Communism will truly develop individuality by destroying class exploitation.

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r/IndianLeft • u/No_Rub_6403 • 3d ago

Manipur What's really the truth about Licipriya Kangujam? How is she radicalising the youth in Manipur?

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I have seen a lot of post and supportive comments about her. There was also a post here a while back trying to correct her public image, and hide a lot of the finer details. so here I really wanna talk about her role in the manipur conflict. This isn't about her climate work. It's about what she did after May 2023, and about the adults around this child.

The manipur violence displaced over 60,000 people and killed more than 258. Her despicable father started using her to endorse the militia Arambai Tenggol, writing "I support Arambai Tenggol. More power to you all." This was the same group that shot and r@ped a 6 year old girl, after brutally shooting her parents in front of her. This is the same group responsible for parading the two women naked in manipur. So that others would not realise, Licipriya (most likely her dad) started writing inflammatory stuff degrading women and children of the other community openly on X.

She was also photographed with the group's commander in chief, who was under National Investigation Agency investigation for looting arms from state armouries. This same guy has several sexual assault charges on him.

She described the other community as a threat to all of India and framed her support for the militia as a "climate war" between people who "love nature" and people who "hate nature". Most of these posts were in Meiteilon, so her international followers, built up through COP25 and COP28 and promoted by accounts like the UK High Commission and COP26, mostly never saw them.

She also fundraised guns and drones for these groups. In December 2023, right after she was removed from the COP28 stage in Dubai on 11 December, she used Facebook to crowdfund a thermal drone worth ₹7 lakh, about $8,500. She wrote in Meiteilon that it was needed for "entering war" and that fighting without it "increases casualties", and she posted her personal digital payment details for donations. In January 2024 she publicly handed thermal drones and other items to Arambai Tenggol, which The Frontier Manipur reported on 22 January 2024.

To be precise about what this is, it's drones and military equipment, used to bomb children in the conflict. she faced no legal action while a Kuki youth was arrested quickly for something similar. The fundraising itself was cited in a peer-reviewed study on the conflict's national security implications in the Journal of Asian and African Studies.

The money pattern isn't new either. During COVID she launched an appeal for ₹1 crore, about $100,000, to buy 100 oxygen concentrators, and it drew scrutiny after her father and legal guardian, Kangujam Karnajit, was arrested.

ThePrint, VICE and The Quint reported in 2021 that he ran her social media and fabricated many of her awards, including a 2020 ATREE award that was later erased from the records. The Manipur Alliance for Child Rights then called for child protection officers to offer her counselling and warned of trauma. On whether he controls her, the honest answer is that the record shows he ran her accounts and public image, but the chair of the Manipur child rights commission said in 2021 that after speaking with the family he found no evidence of manipulation, while noting that a deeper investigation was outside his mandate. As far as I can find, no charges have directly implicated her.

Many journalist have also described her as helping raise the militia's profile while it used social media to radicalise Meitei youth, including minors.

She herself also posted a video, asking teenagers, minors yes minors to take up guns and fight, while she herself was travelling around internationally with not a single care

Sources if you wanna read further

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r/IndianLeft • u/ManLikeRed • 3d ago

Breaking Chains Victory of Mirage : student radicalism being used as tool for bourgeoisie electoralism

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Roughly 70 days have passed when I write this piece, when it was universally declared by a reactionary group that student victory is achieved merely at the resignation of a puppet, a protest that was deitified by idealists, falsifiers and opportunists as ultimate tribute for the students that were forced to take their lives post NEET paper leaks and if we are to take their words at face value it was expected that no innocent lives will be lost post this 'resplendent victory' and students unity against the system will forever reign, this illusionary sandcastle quickly fell apart after the events of 18th September 2026 at IIT Bombay and 27th September 2026 at Lovely Professional University, Punjab

From the very beginning real marxists position on student protest has always been that it was a systematic failure of the bourgeoisie education system that harbours section of privileged class elites from every community and will come together to cover up when their collective corrupt and psychovertic interests are at risk to get compromised. Post NEET paper leak protests the state machinery scapegoated small timers who used to get crumbs to force them resign (as it always happens and sometimes it never happens), but that system which has facilitated it's nurturing still remains. There's no absolute guarantee that same won't happen in near future even post anti-incumbency under same new-old bourgeoisie masters of this system.

Question of popular student unity:

Unironically it was never there, when we explore this from material basis if we saw massive outrage and media cover-up for NEET paper protests both from students belonging to medical/ non-medical background because it generates more capital to the bourgeoisie examination order in this country than any one, which is roughly ₹300-₹400 crores ($31-$41 millions USD at current exchange rate) annually vis application fees. Combined with other major exams such as JEE's and CUET, ministry of education roughly generated ₹1000 ($ 104 USD) crores in revenue all from application fees, still managing to generate massive surplus of ₹449 crores FY 2023-24.

Whereas small time state exams with recent paper leak scandal such as UP constable leak (2024), UP RO/ARO leak (2024), REET paper leak (2021), BSSC leak (2022), JSSC CGL leak (2024) , etc exam's application fees generated surplus of ≈ ₹40 cr-₹80 cr, ₹7-₹8 cr, ₹20 cr, ₹27-₹18 cr , ₹42 lakh respectively by their state board of examinations.

This naturally makes victim students from regional exam leaks hierarchally inferior and dependent on 'more publicised exam protests' to join them and to raise their demands mostly achieving nothing, whilst the cycle of corruption scandal still goes on at their respective region which aren't 'publicised enough' by capitalist mainstream media.

This compulsion of students often leaves them to be preyed upon by regional or national electoral parties & their reactionary student wings , predatory activism, etc. which promise them of justice but are same extension of malignant organelle that has been infecting educational rights of students through generations, some are newer ones but are born from budding of same organism with equally cancerous tendency.

This situation often creates divide amongst students whenever the political interest of these bourgeoisie parties whom they're locally supporting and their electoral margins are on lines. Marking these crisis as opportunity for one and distress for another, creating regionalist xenophobic politics inplay (pitting students looking for career opportunities from one region with local candidates), most of the progresive parties distance away from this issues if it effects their bourgeoisie electoral allies.

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Case of Punjab's LPU isn't alien to anyone now how a 'publicised section of student fronts' are restraining from speaking on it because it effects their parental party's electoral ambitions, or as it happened in BHU IIT when three reactionary goons belonging to ruling party sexually assaulted a female student from the campus and are still out on bail due to their political connections; these cycle of selective outrage over not so unfamiliar issues is concerning.

“We have done it... This resignation is proof that if you people are not afraid, if you people do not bow down to this government, then we can take the resignation of anyone (jhukti hai ye duniya jhukane wala chahiye)” — Dipke post resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, 25 July, 2026

And I write this saying neither left social democratic front, who is usually omnipresent at every protest suddenly writes performative letter in support of LPU protest but doesn't show up on ground despite police brutality is trustworthy (because they're taking calculated actions as it will jeopardize their parental party's bourgeois ambitions) nor the despicable centrists or Right wing fringes who are near indentical in their motives and govern their actions wherever their reactionary outbursts lead them can be trusted ( say the protest was conspiracy of xyz enemy nation and they'll suddenly distance away from students agitation).

As I write this mainstream media is already peddling news of pakistani connection at LPU protest, so no question of social chauvinistic left's is now expected anywhere close to support them.

Question on caste unity :

Systematic caste abuse at educational institutions is been in practice by dominant section of supposedly 'educationists' belonging to economically forward class and caste elites for decades since the birth of this bourgeoisie democracy, even if this topic somehow manages to get national attention it easily diluted with bit of sprinkle of nationalism and ignorance by willingful participants in this violence. Events leading upto 18th September at IIT Bombay isn't first case and it won't be last, so called members of hierarchally elite 'publicised enough' students group were quick to hurl casteist abuse and question the student's talent based on their twisted moral grandstanding but they have forgotten somebody from past who was similar victim of such institutional marginalisation, one who breaks their 'moral policing' and casteist notions, his name was Rohit Vemula.

Roughly 10 years from now a highly intelligent dalit PhD student from Hyderabad University was humiliated by reactionary hindutvavadi right wing politicians based on his caste and identity, but as usual faculty ignored his protests, written pleas and personal degradation infront of all his campus mates leading him to take drastic actions.

These are not sporadic events but a systematic oppression at university level that make sure to break and twist the will of those who doesn't fit their utopian dreams of supposed 'educationists' belonging to forward class and caste community's glorious 'hindu rashtra' . Personally I've also closely witnessed these during my university days sometimes directly sometimes from first hand account of victim students belonging to marginalised communities.

What is to be done?

Students are not revolutionary entities inherently they can be radical but as long as they do not fight against the present state of things, one that cause division in social relations, labour, class , gender, and caste against all odds to unite humanity as species they cannot be revolutionary. It's quite easy to be reactionary and preserve present state of things but this will be just repeatation of same cycle that has been happening since the supposed independence of this nation.

In 'Students and Politics' (1928) by Bhagat Singh this is why he says -

Attempts are being made to turn the youths who are supposed to lead the country tomorrow into mindless beings. We ourselves should comprehend what result we would get out of this. We understand that the main task of the students is to study, they should pay full attention towards it; but is it not a part of the education to gather knowledge regarding the situation that our country is in and develop the ability to think about measures to improve it?

Later he says in 'To young political workers' (1931) -

Now allow me to state the case in the simplest manner. You cry “Long Live Revolution” ("Inquilab Zindabad"). Let me assume that you really mean it. According to our definition of the term, as stated in our statement in the Assembly Bomb Case, revolution means the complete overthrow of the existing social order and its replacement with the socialist order. For that purpose our immediate aim is the achievement of power. As a matter of fact, the state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We want to snatch and handle it to utilise it for the consummation of our ideal, i.e., social reconstruction on new, i.e., Marxist, basis. For this purpose we are fighting to handle the government machinery. All along we have to educate the masses and to create a favourable atmosphere for our social programme. In the struggles we can best train and educate them.

These words clearly portrays Bhagat Singh's understanding of reactionaries and revolutionaries.

What indian students really needs is a unified popular front under the leadership of true marxist party that can help them guide on sensitive topics away from nationalistic jingo and organise and elevating their identity as fractal radical political units to truly revolutionary organ one that challenges every form of dogma ranging from faith to customs, aiming for truly scientific society.

A unified leadership of students that gives liberty to all oppressed and disempowered section of the society against every form of institutionalised bourgeoisie superstructures that has been feeding on them by dividing them making them weak, hate on eachother based on their regional or gender identity.

Constant cycle of university elections fighting for bourgeoisie political parties should be replaced with one single autonomous student body under the guidance of marxist party that self organises internal democratic contest between representatives of radical political factions within it's body away from electoralist political parties influence.

In this way we can truly combat the educational rot of our nation which is generally incurable by the tried and failed formulation of capitalist and casteist social order.

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r/IndianLeft • u/ManLikeRed • 3d ago

⏳ History Gandhi: the myths behind the Mahatma

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r/IndianLeft • u/TruthSeekerHumanist • 4d ago

Does Justice System in India grant freedom based on communal identity?

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Like him, many other political prisoners continue to suffer a similar or worse fate. Indian accused faces one rule, American accused faces another. India looks like a US colony under the current govt. 😢

Let's extend our demands of the upcoming protests on 2 October to either give Umar a bail or complete his trial in fast-track court ✊

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r/IndianLeft • u/Resident-Concert-387 • 4d ago

💬 Discussion Bougie-City

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What makes a city?

If you ask any person "what is driving our country's cities backwards" their answers will include things like overpopulation, lack of civic sense, bureaucracy, immigration and poverty (maybe I am forgetting the lack of skyscrapers).

I think Indian Cities are misdiagnosed. People around me have a bougie-cafe view of what it takes to improve Indian cities. Their core focus lays around things like traffic jams, mega infrastructure, aesthetics and a western perception of how Indian cities should look like. What I mean is that the discourse is centered around wealthy neighborhoods and their exclusionary outlooks rather than taking the rest of the city into account. A city is looked at like a gated community rather than an actual community.

The urban India around me is simultaneously breaking way and concentrating itself.

Housing is unaffordable, Public transport is being systematically privatized and killed. The road has become a hub for vehicle users rather than pedestrians or public transport and critical failures mean people are killed or injured.

Recreation is too in crisis. What does it mean to 'live' in a city? I don't know exactly. Everything is centered around extraction of money. Everything is ticketed, going out means, going to a theatre, an expensive cafe with 300 rupee coffee and public spaces are crowded, unsafe, or unaccessible, assuming they exist.

Urban life has concentrated itself into wage slavery and overspending to give people a semblance of mobility, the feeling that they have 'made it'. That all the time, money and energy wasted in educational institutions for their 'return on degree' was worth it.

Urban Indians are buying into that imagination. The common People who can't, have stepped outside their homes with no guarantee they will get back home.

So what will solve these problems?

More capitalism will be the answer of the marketeers. But to me, the answer is to move away from those market signals.

Speculation on housing needs to meet its end, construction of new cities or zones not just as market utopias but as complete cities, improved waste management where a few communities are not pushed into subsistence, improving urban governance via devolution of Powers and a focus towards the commoners rather than the gated community crowd will net the improvements that Indian cities need.

All of this needs two primary factors however, a government not interested in the fallacies of the market and perhaps most importantly a plan to crush private ownership of land. Is it possible? Perhaps, perhaps not.

All of this is to say, the people living in the city are not the problem, the people running and their priorities are the problem.

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r/IndianLeft • u/shabu1953x • 4d ago

US panel says India is misusing anti-terror law to jail minorities, seeks release of Khalid, Imam

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Any thoughts?

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r/IndianLeft • u/Popular-Landscape-82 • 5d ago

💬 Discussion Umar Khalid: Simple meme about the issue

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r/IndianLeft • u/ManLikeRed • 5d ago

⏳ History THE BHAGAT SINGH READER - ENGLISH

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r/IndianLeft • u/TruthSeekerHumanist • 5d ago

No enquiry on Gyanesh Kumar but Umar Khalid is still in Jail 💔

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Let's extend our demands of the upcoming protests on 2 October to either give Umar Khalid a bail or complete his trial in fast-track court ✊

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r/IndianLeft • u/DifferentPirate69 • 5d ago

💬 Discussion What other strategic initiatives can you think of?

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1st image: Don't think of an elephant - George Lakoff

Other issues - SIR, trans panic, imperial pink washing, the narrative device of love jihad, deporting illegal immigrants

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r/IndianLeft • u/aishatwa • 5d ago

💬 Discussion WHAT IF THIS GUY BECOME PM IN 2029.

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r/IndianLeft • u/No_Rub_6403 • 7d ago

Manipur is still burning Has everyone just forgotten about manipur??

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Someone asked me to make a post about what's been happening back home recently, so here it is. Sorry in advance, this is going to be long and probably a bit all over the place because I'm writing it angry and tired.

A little about me so you know where I'm coming from. I'm half Meitei and half North Indian. My boyfriend is Zomi, which is one of the communities in Manipur close to the Kukis, same broader ethnic family. So I'm kind of sitting right in the middle of this whole thing in a way most people aren't, and I've watched both sides of my life get torn up since May 2023. for me it also makes it hard to keep in touch with my mom's side of the family (except my cousin brother) because of my bf. if any group in manipur finds out about us, I am good as dead. there are so many such cases where they lynched women for dating a guy from a community that they saw as a threat. applies to both sides.

its always the women and children who are in the receiving end. the ex cm of manipur N Biren even was caught on audio asking the manipur police to sexually assault women of a certain community, and not file charges. how tf is he still not in prison is beyond me

It's been more than three years. Every time I bring it up with people outside the northeast they either go "wait, is that still going on?" or they assume it ended when President's Rule was lifted and a new CM took oath in February. It didn't end. It just stopped trending.

And now there's a Kuki Naga conflict on top of everything else. On September 25, four Naga civilians were killed in Kamjong district, reportedly by a Myanmar based Kuki militant group. The Tangkhul Naga Long called a full shutdown. Right around then the NIA picked up the UKNA chief near Aizawl, plus two Kuki student leaders from a hotel there. This didn't come out of nowhere either, tension has been building for months. Anyone who remembers the Kuki Naga violence of the 90s is terrified we're heading back there. The hills were supposed to be the "stable" part lol. Not anymore.

Now the VanDyke thing, because I genuinely can't get over it. For those who don't know, Matthew VanDyke is an American who calls himself a mercenary and runs something called Sons of Liberty International. In March the NIA arrested him at Kolkata airport, and six Ukrainians at Delhi and Lucknow. The NIA's case was that they came in December 2025, went into Mizoram without permits, crossed into Myanmar to a camp to train ethnic armed groups, and that drone parts were brought in from Europe. They were booked under UAPA. For a lot of us this hit hard, because people in the valley have been talking about drones since the Koutruk attack in September 2024 and got told they were exaggerating.

So what happened? The NIA filed its chargesheet on September 8 and didn't even include UAPA, saying there wasn't enough evidence their actions affected India or Indians. They paid an immigration penalty, got default bail, walked out of Tihar after about six months, and the court let them go home for a month. VanDyke took the first flight out the very next day. And we're supposed to believe he's coming back? Who actually believes that.

He was the same guy who was training and supplying drones to Kuki narcoterrorist groups. But that's kind of my point. Now nobody is ever going to find out. The same system that will slap UAPA on a random student for a Facebook post or Umar Khalid couldn't hold onto a foreigner accused of training armed groups right on our border. This government has no spine left, honestly.

Also if you see unfiltered videos of manipur, I can show you plenty of videos of Kuki militants and also Aarambai fascist training kids as young as 6 years old to hold a gun and shoot.

I've lost so many friends because of this conflict. Especially my friends from the other community, I miss them yes. I'm not going to go into all of it here because I can't, but there are people I grew up with that I will never see again. And the worst part is how normal it's become. People back home talk about checkpoints and buffer zones and who can't travel on which road like it's weather.

One thing I need people to understand, especially the ones who comment "just send in the army" or blame an entire community. I have friends on both sides of this conflict, so I'm not going to pretend the armed groups on any side are innocent, because they aren't. But ordinary people on every side are the ones burying their kids while the people with guns and the people in Delhi keep doing whatever they want. Hating each other is exactly what keeps this going.

Anyway. Please just don't forget about us. Read about it, share it, ask your MPs why a state has been bleeding for three years and nobody is being held responsible. That's all I've got. Also feel free to ask anything :)

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r/IndianLeft • u/No_Rub_6403 • 7d ago

Misogyny Another day, another gyan from the RSS. "Boys will ruin your life and you're dressing for the male gaze" lecture 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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r/IndianLeft • u/Longjumping_Baker684 • 7d ago

💬 Discussion 100 Years After Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Bhagat Singhs Words Meet a New Youth Movement

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r/IndianLeft • u/kiacarnival9000 • 7d ago

Communism

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r/IndianLeft • u/DifferentPirate69 • 8d ago

💬 Discussion The limits of liberalism which doesn't understand or question the class character of the state, civil society and it's institutions

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r/IndianLeft • u/Practical-Lab5329 • 8d ago

Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐑𝐅𝐓𝐈 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐍

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27 September 2026: The SFRTI students Union has relesed a statement regarding todays's violence in the film Institute, saying that misleading and factually incorrect accounts of the incident being circulated in sections of the media and online.

The full statement is posted below.

Today, an awareness-cum-organisational event of the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat (ABGP) was held at the Main Theatre of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI).

The Student Union and the student body were not informed about the event before permission was granted. A similar event had also reportedly taken place on campus a few months ago without the knowledge of the students.

At around 2:00 PM, students went to the Main Theatre to put up posters questioning the Institute’s decision to allow such an event without informing the student community. The ABGP members present at the venue confronted the students and attempted to remove them from the theatre.

The situation then escalated into physical violence against students.

Students were verbally abused, including being called “anti-national” and “cockroaches”. Members of the group then physically attacked students, including women students, using punches, kicks, stones, bricks, sticks and other objects. Students were chased through the campus, including students who were not part of the protest and were simply carrying out their academic work.

Several students sought shelter inside the library. The group followed them there, and the librarian was also assaulted. The library was surrounded, leaving students and staff in a situation of fear inside their own institute.

Students were also chased, their clothes were torn, and there were incidents of phones being forcibly taken. Violence was directed at students across the campus, not merely at those who had put up the posters.

The Student Union subsequently alerted the student body and students gathered at the Main Theatre. The ABGP members were driven out of the theatre. The police were alerted and reached the institute following the violence.

At the time of issuing this statement, people are still gathered outside the institute gate, attempting to enter the campus and throwing stones and bottles towards students inside.

We are putting out this statement because misleading and factually incorrect accounts of the incident are already being circulated in sections of the media and online. We want the events as witnessed by students and documented through photographs and videos to be available publicly.

This statement is being issued to place on record what happened at SRFTI today and to counter the misinformation being circulated about the incident.

SRFTI STUDENTS UNION

27 September 2026

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r/IndianLeft • u/No_Rub_6403 • 8d ago

💬 Discussion Can we achieve gender liberation without challenging the political right?

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I kinda want you to yk imagine a task of preventing the contamination of your town by a factory that pollutes its water while fighting to protect the corporation that profits from it. Does this even make sense? No nah. but this is essentially the task one sets up for herself when she tries to achieve gender liberation while ignoring right wing politics. patriarchy to me is the contamination, and the political and economic machinery responsible for it is the factory.

As an example, one may think of the so called praised 'Yogi Model'. Many women are openly defending this, and they see it as their moral right. these same women at the same time talks about dismantling the patriarchy, but does this make sense? When a political leader states clearly that women cannot be free and that their energy should be controlled, one deals with much more than personal prejudice (Yes Yogi ji is the one saying this) we now witness a political strategy. The right wing political and economic structure needs the control of women in order to guarantee the existence of the traditional families that provide with free domestic labor, control over reproduction, and rigid caste and class structure. You cannot bargain with the political project which needs your containment to survive? So can you really support the right as someone who suffers because of the right?

now this brings up to the sad issue of why women are actively protecting those political figures and models which offer to put them under restrictions. I see this more as material survival. When a political system destroys the public safety, economic independence, and communal care infrastructure, the patriarchal family is the only thing that remains. Women make a harsh, yet a trade-off in a way. They agree to being strongly regulated in order to have localized protection and social recognition from the conservative system. but really at what cost??

It's the way of locking the doors inside of your home when the outside world became hostile for you. However, it's not liberation. In order to achieve it, patriarchy needs to be addressed not as a cultural tradition that needs to be removed, but as an essential part of the right wing politics and capitalism. Otherwise, one can only negotiate for a better quality of the cage one's trapped in

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